You're kidding, right?
The absolute best I've ever heard anyone describe him as was a ruthless and opportunistic businessman. Not even his kids think he is a "benign figure".
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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You're kidding, right?
The absolute best I've ever heard anyone describe him as was a ruthless and opportunistic businessman. Not even his kids think he is a "benign figure".
If you say so. Until Russia invaded Ukraine, there was zero controversy over Abramovich’s ownership of the club in recent years. It had become accepted that he was just one of the Londongrad Lads. That’s what they do those oligarchs, bring their money to London, invest it, have the most incredibly litigious and aggressive lawyers they can afford, and slowly blend into the background. Lawyers will deal with the media, fans will thank you for your money.
If anything, he was seen as the archetypal sugar daddy owner: as long as he was doing a good job with the club, people stopped caring about the source of his funds.
It’s the same with City. It will be the same with Newcastle.
Nobody here crying about his sanctions because he didn't get one. We will welcome if he get sanctioned because government has proof about his wrong doings.
One MP said bad things about Roman under parliament privilege otherwise Roman would have sued him. If that MP have evidence then just say it in open that he is indeed close to Putin. Why he is reluctant in saying obvious.
And from your own manager.
That's not my experience as a Chelsea fan, at all. Roman's dodgyness is (fairly) mentioned all the time and has been since day one.
Same with Man City, their owners are always mentioned. It'll be the same with Newcastle.
Obviously the war has changed things completely in terms of the coverage Roman is getting but he never got good press (not saying he deserved any) other than the NHS stuff in the last couple of years.
Rightly so.
cnuts.
Chelsea fans doing Chelsea things. They really are utterly shameful shites. Feel sorry for the decent fans that get tarnished by the actions of those utter bellends.
So how come people interrupt a silence for Ukraine with shouts for that "ruthless, dodgy, opportunistic" billionaire businessman? In this very thread one of your fellow Chelsea fans matches every post of yours with an example for sports washing.
That’s great to hear. Thought it would be
shock, horror
they're scumbags.
up there with Millwall
they're scumbags.
up there with Millwall
round them up and send them to Russia
Is anyone surprised? They're Chelsea fans.
Dumb tribalism and blind loyalty to the person responsible for nearly two decades of success. If that's sports washing, ok.
Everyone apart from Chelsea fans think he's a dodgy criminal. I don't think he's been "washed" by the sport at all.
Today the fans of my club let themselves down. At a time when sensitivity was required, some decided to follow their tribal instincts and a rightly condemned. What is it about football that attracts fans who can’t follow a simple morale code? Instead of having a minutes silence remembering the dead we feel the need to applaud, scared that the idiotic few will spoil the tribute. Fans can regularly be heard singing about tragedies like Hillsborough or Munich, boos can be heard when celebrating a nations anthem. We call fans of other teams scum and cnuts. Maybe we should all reflect on the standards of behaviour and those fan bases without sin, cast the first stone.
Glad to see Tuchel standing up and criticising those chanting idiots. The lack of self-awareness by so many is absolutely infuriating.
That’s being naive to a fault.
Maybe one day we'll learn something as original as "United, United, United"
As far as I know the assumed primary reason for Abramovich buying Chelsea, in terms of sports washing, has been that he wanted to protect himself against a falling out back home, by becoming a public a public figure of British life. Which also means that in the British public eye he's (also) that guy who "loves" Chelsea, whose face everyone knows, instead of some unnamed faceless oligarch, no one would think twice about sanctioning. And of course he bought himself an army of "bots", who come to his defense and harass journalists, when people write something negative about him.
I mean look at your own posts, you're here telling me that he's not sports washing, so I guess he must genuinely love the club and invest for passion!? Which I think most people would see as a positive characterization.
Unfortunately I think he'll have to quit because of it.
Never known a club where people tar the entire club/fanbase due to the actions of a minority like they do with us.
Imagine if someone tarred your whole club based on Greenwood's recording or the minority that chanted about Hillsbrough?
If that happens we are truly fecked. That said, I don't think this is especially likely given some of his recent comments - he's said that he is keen to continue as he feels Chelsea are a good fit for him. Think Marina's future is far more up in the air than Tuchel's - I'd be surprised if he didn't see out the rest of his contract.
Up until he wasn't allowed into the country, he attended hundreds of games over two decades with his kids. There's hours of footage of him celebrating wins and goals, I just don't believe that was all just an act, if you do that's fair enough.
It's entirely possible for him the be a complete scumbag and also have some affection for a football club.
You can try to simplify it down to "he was sports washing or loved the club" because that's a nice and convenient way to make a point but things are never that straightforward in reality.
I just don't think "sports washing" as a concept really fits with Roman and Chelsea. Nobody had heard of him before he took over and after all these years, the vast majority of football fans all think he's a crook. There was no public opinion of him to rehabilitate or "wash".
Christ, enough with the homophobic slurs.
To be fair, Abramovich bought a club that had just qualified for the Champions League, not some Newcastle or City-esque club.
Nah Liverpool get it too albeit not from the media. Any team that has a high percentage of dicks in comparison to the 1% at other clubs. Much and all as I hate to give them anything after the bus attack or City, 3-4 % of their fanbase really tarnish it for the rest. With you guys its kinda the same.
Buy chelsea 3bn
Transfer whole squad to chelsea
Transfer their whole quad to ours
Sell chelsea for 2bn
1bn spent and ready to compete
Transfer whole squad to chelsea
Transfer their whole quad to ours
Sell chelsea for 2bn
1bn spent and ready to compete
Not to say I told you so… but I told you so. This is the kind of predictable thing that happens when you stop simply supporting Ukraine or opposing Russia and it’s invasion and attacking people on a personal level.
One of the most famous opera singers in the world was forced to leave the Met Opera for essentially being Russian.
You. Will. Play. Into. Putins. Hands. With. This. Strategy. In the case of the Newcastle owners, the human atrocities were committed by the actual person buying the club.
In the case of a lot of these Russians …, they are JUST Russian.
We are trying to distract from the fact the the UK and the US signed a treatise in the Budapest memorandums GUARANTEEING the sovereignty and independent borders of Ukraine in 2014. We are failing in our obligations, because we are scared. And we ignore Zelensky’s every other word. He’s gonna be like: “Have you cut off your oil purchases, and made efforts to keep our skies clear of bombers?”
And we’re gonna be like: “No… we took a Rich guys football team and wore, like, a ton of Ribbons though”
One of the most famous opera singers in the world was forced to leave the Met Opera for essentially being Russian.
You. Will. Play. Into. Putins. Hands. With. This. Strategy. In the case of the Newcastle owners, the human atrocities were committed by the actual person buying the club.
In the case of a lot of these Russians …, they are JUST Russian.
We are trying to distract from the fact the the UK and the US signed a treatise in the Budapest memorandums GUARANTEEING the sovereignty and independent borders of Ukraine in 2014. We are failing in our obligations, because we are scared. And we ignore Zelensky’s every other word. He’s gonna be like: “Have you cut off your oil purchases, and made efforts to keep our skies clear of bombers?”
And we’re gonna be like: “No… we took a Rich guys football team and wore, like, a ton of Ribbons though”
Russian Oligarch > Opera singer to be fair
Most here are old enough to remember the last 19 years of chants and support for Abramovich from your "minority"
Two of the current offers for Chelsea are from Qatar and Dubai ffs
https://m.sundayworld.com/sport/soc...out-at-chants-from-chelsea-fans-41416010.html
https://m.sundayworld.com/sport/soc...out-at-chants-from-chelsea-fans-41416010.html
Can someone edit the thread title? This 'club' he wants to get rid of has a name.
If you say so.
Classless bstards,
if the pl or the uk had a bit of decency they would take this whole shit as a possibility to kick out the likes of dubai etc from football as a whole. anyone who thinks the saudis or dubai are any better than russia is naiv.
How did Roman Abramovich get his hands on a nationally owned oil company? If he has no ties to the Russian government why did they let him just take over the company? Why do they still let him have control of so much of Russia's oil?
We knew he could no longer get a visa, but there was real pressure on Chelsea to force Abramovich to sell because the fans had been sated during his ownership of the club.